The academy despises the IDEA of self-promotion while rewarding those who do it in properly academic ways. This is just one of the many classist elements of academia. Those who decide to leave the academy need to face and overcome the shaming around … [Read more...] about Episode 2.8 – Self-Promotion Is Not a Dirty Word

Moving forward in our discussion of how to build a side hustle in these scary and precarious times, Karen and Kel talk about the challenges for academics in "knowing what you know." The challenge is, you forget and/or discount all the hundreds of … [Read more...] about Episode 2.7 – Postac Skills: You Have Them

COVID has decimated academic hiring and everybody, including the tenured, need to start prioritizing a side hustle asap. The trouble is, academics don't go into academia to be do quick pivots and improvisational career thinking--academia is a linear … [Read more...] about Episode 2.6 – You’re OK

Dr. Deana Dartt, Founder and Principal of Live Oak Consulting, PhD in Anthropology and Museum Studies, and enrolled member of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation, joins us today for a conversation about the ways that racism and anti-indigeneity … [Read more...] about Episode 2.5 – Being Native In and Out of the Academy: An Interview with Dr. Deana Dartt

Building on the brand new webinar, Knowing Your Own Value in the Academy, Karen and Kel talk about how to identify and overcome the "never enough" ethos that pervades the academic enterprise. We delve into the shame and shaming that manifest this … [Read more...] about Episode 2.4 – Knowing Your Own Value in the Academy

When Karen gave the advice, "stop acting like a grad student," she was working from a model grad student in her mind who, it turns out when she gave it a bit more thought, was a white male. In today's episode, Karen and Kel dig into that normative … [Read more...] about Episode 2.3 – Revisiting “Don’t Act Like a Grad Student”

In this episode, Karen and Kel talk about how searches are run. While Karen wrote chapter four of the book to open up the Black Box (so to speak) of the academic job search, a closer examination reveals all the ways that the "normative" search model … [Read more...] about Episode 2.2 – Revisiting the Job Search Process

Karen and Kel launch the new project of revisiting our core job market advice with an eye to its gaps around racism and the experience of BIPOC scholars. We begin with the first section of the Professor Is In book, which discusses the "big lie" of … [Read more...] about Episode 2.1 – Beginning Again

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Recorded prior to the #BLM moment, this episode talks about planning for Fall 2020 in the new COVID world. It's almost impossible to plan when everything feels so up in the air, and transitioning through the frantic effort of moving classes and life … [Read more...] about Episode 24 – Planning Into the Void